My daughter has been possessed.

Chapter 194 Strange Tales in the Clouds

dong dong dong.

Just as Li Jiuhe was dozing off, there was a sudden knock on the metal door of the passageway connecting the stern and forward cabins.

Li Jiuhe and Ma Li looked up at the same time.

Li Yi was playing a game on the tablet provided on the plane and didn't notice.

Ma Li asked in surprise, "What, are the people in front coming over?"

This was their first time flying on this type of plane, and they didn't know if there had ever been a case where someone in the front cabin had contacted someone in the rear cabin before.

But I heard Luo Shuo say before boarding that, in order to ensure the confidentiality of official business, the people in the front cabin would not take the initiative to contact the people in the rear cabin.

Even those in front can't get into the rear compartment unless the people behind them open the hatch themselves.

Li Jiuhe had just asked about the key to open the cabin door; it was on the female attendant.

dong dong dong ——

Another knocking sounded, this time lasting longer and sounding very urgent.

Seeing that Li Jiuhe didn't speak, Ma Li turned to him and asked, "Brother Li, should we open the cabin door? I'll have the flight attendant bring the key."

Before Li Jiuhe could speak, the phone hanging on the wall suddenly rang. The waitress in the back room quickly came out and answered the phone.

Her tone was very respectful. She called him "Master" and then began to apologize repeatedly, while glancing at Li Jiuhe and the others out of the corner of her eye from time to time.

After speaking on the phone for a moment, the waitress hung up and cautiously approached Li Jiuhe, saying softly, "Sir, I'm sorry, I might need to use my key to open that cabin door. Mr. Bo Ming needs to speak with you!"

"You need something from me?" Li Jiuhe looked at her in surprise.

The waitress nodded quickly and pointed to the phone on the wall: "He just told me on the phone that he had knocked on the door, but there was no response."

"He probably doesn't even know who I am. We don't know each other. What could he possibly need to see me for? Can't we explain it clearly over the phone?" Li Jiuhe asked.

The waitress shook her head in confusion, her tone apologetic: "I'm sorry, sir, you may have to ask him yourself. I—"

I dare not speak to our master like this, so I—may I open the door now?

Li Jiuhe laughed: "Originally, this door shouldn't have been opened. I didn't want to have any more dealings with your master. But now it seems that if we don't open it, we both have unanswered questions, and you might even be punished."

Ma Li nodded quickly, clearly filled with curiosity as well.

The waitress smiled awkwardly, but after a while, she couldn't help but nod.

"Brother Li, why do you think we can't open this door?" Ma Li asked.

Li Jiuhe pointed to the hatch and said, "This door is about 15 centimeters thick. The outer layer is made of carbon fiber composite material, the inner layer is made of flame-retardant fiberboard, and the core layer should be a honeycomb sandwich. Given the tight structure of this door, go over and knock on it now."

Ma Li got up as instructed, walked to the cabin door, and knocked with her knuckles as she always did.

Because Li Jiuhe had just said that the door was very thick, she deliberately knocked harder.

Puff puff.

The next second, everyone could hear that the knocking sound was very monotonous, like knocking on a thick city wall, with no penetrating power, and the sound could only be heard from the stern.

Even if you're not paying attention in that direction, you can't hear it from a little distance.

"Why is that sound?" Ma Li was surprised.

"Isn't it completely different from the sound we just heard?" Li Jiuhe asked.

Ma Li nodded.

Li Jiuhe said, "To hear a knock as clearly as before, you'd have to hit the door hard with a metal wrench or some other hard tool. Only then could the sound from that end reach this side. But even then, it would still sound different from the knocking sound from before."

"What were those people using to knock on the door just now?" Ma Li asked in surprise.

"It was probably just a tap by hand, but a lot of force, the kind of forceful tapping," Li Jiuhe guessed.

"Ah!" Ma Li said, "If an ordinary person were to knock like that, their fingers would surely be broken."

"So I'm also very curious, what exactly happened over there?" Li Jiuhe smiled and said, "After all, as far as we know, this tycoon is just an ordinary person."

"Where are his bodyguards? Perhaps his bodyguards are special," Ma Li said.

Li Jiuhe looked at the waitress and asked, "Your master's bodyguard—"

The waitress shook her head and said, "The master's bodyguards are not on the plane. One is on leave and the other is sick, so the master did not bring any bodyguards with him on this trip back to the country."

"What a coincidence, one is on leave and the other is sick?" Li Jiuhe was somewhat taken aback.

Unaware of his thoughts, the waitress took out the key she had been carrying and pointed to the hatch: "So, sir, may I open the door now?"

Li Jiuhe nodded: "Open it, but I'll open it. You go to the back and don't go near the hatch."

The waitress was taken aback. The key in her hand had already been taken by Li Jiuhe. She bowed slightly and walked to the back as instructed.

Li Jiuhe gave Ma Li a look: "You go and stay with Li Yi too."

Ma Li nodded, ran to sit down next to Li Yi, who was still playing a tablet game, but Ma Li was staring at Li Jiuhe.

Li Jiuhe arrived at the hatch, found the keyhole, inserted the key in his hand, and slowly turned it.

The locks and hatches were specially made; you could hear a click.

The waitress's voice came from behind: "Sir, you also need to turn the door handle, about three full turns to the right."

Li Jiuhe nodded, then quickly turned the door rudder, which was smaller than a steering wheel, and soon opened the connecting hatch.

Looking up, I saw that there was no one at the doorway.

He walked quickly over and arrived at the front cabin's activity space, only to find that there was no one there.

Both laptops were on, and the telephone that had been hanging on the wall was not put back in its place, but was left hanging by the telephone line, swaying back and forth in mid-air.

With suspicion in his heart, Li Jiuhe continued his search further ahead, opening and checking each room he passed.

The front cabin is significantly larger, including a small meeting room, restrooms, and a lounge.

When he opened the toilet at the very front, which was close to the cockpit, he was slightly taken aback. Inside the spacious toilet, which also had a shower, several people, both men and women, were lying haphazardly.

He didn't recognize these people. He went into the restroom, squatted down, and pressed on the carotid artery of one of them, only to find that there was no pulse.

They tried other people, and without exception, all of them were already dead, but their bodies were still warm, meaning they had only recently died.

The plane then experienced a slight turbulence.

Li Jiuhe stood up and quickly returned to the outside passage. He went to the cockpit door, pressed the doorbell, and waited for a moment, but there was no response.

He pounded on the door again, the sound so loud it was clear the person inside could hear it.

But there was still no response.

Without hesitation, Li Jiuhe clenched his right fist and smashed the door open with a bang, sending sparks flying and the plane's alarm blaring. He then groped around and quickly opened the door.

Stepping into the cockpit, I saw the captain and first officer slumped in their seats.

The two men were covered in blood, unlike the corpses outside. The wounds on their faces and bodies looked as if they had been slashed by a sharp blade, with their skin torn open and the bone exposed.

Not long after Li Jiuhe went to the front cabin, a series of footsteps came from the connecting passage.

Immediately, the waitress standing at the back of the table's eyes lit up slightly, and she quickly stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Sir."

This person was Bo Mingyun. He seemed to have just passed by Li Jiuhe in the direction he came from, but for some reason the two did not meet.

Bo Mingyun nodded expressionlessly, his gaze sweeping over the waitress and over Ma Li and Li Yi not far away.

The waitress was just an ordinary person. Upon seeing Bo Mingyun, she instinctively felt fear, afraid that Bo Mingyun would blame her as he had done on the phone earlier.

However, Bo Mingyun completely ignored her.

Li Yi's heart skipped a beat. She silently looked up and shifted her attention from the game to the unfamiliar middle-aged man not far away.

Almost immediately, she reached out and pressed down on the restless little Q doll beside her.

Ma Li also realized what was happening, and her vigilance instantly rose to its highest level. She leaned forward and shielded Li Yi behind her.

She had already sensed a strong threat from Bo Mingyun.

Looking at Bo Mingyun's face, Ma Li had a vague feeling that this guy, like herself, was not human.

Bo Mingyun's gaze did not linger on the two women for long, but quickly swept over them before settling on a storage cabinet.

He quickly approached.

The locker contained the Evil Sequence Item Box, which was intended to be taken to the Kingdom of Liuli.

According to Luo Shuo, the urn contained no ashes at all; it was just an empty box, yet it was a sequence item that none of the investigators could ignore.

This thing has committed numerous atrocities in both the Liuli Kingdom and the Tian Shu Kingdom.

Before the escort, the investigation bureau had already contacted Bo Mingyun and even went to the private plane in advance to confirm that the cargo they were carrying was very ordinary and did not contain anything that could activate the Grief Box.

After all, what Shanghe is most interested in is corpses, and it's impossible for this tycoon to have a corpse on his private jet to take back to China.

Upon arriving in Dancheng, the Investigation Bureau of Liuli Kingdom had a special car waiting for Li Jiuhe and his group, and they were escorted along the way to ensure that the Shanghe could reach its destination safely.

Moreover, given Li Jiuhe's current status as a top-level investigator, escorting this sequence item is more than enough.

Logically speaking, Bo Mingyun had no idea what they would be escorting, nor could he possibly know that the item was in the locker, which is why Ma Li was surprised.

As Bo Mingyun strode closer to the locker, she immediately released her ant larvae, which transformed into a small beast and pounced on Bo Mingyun.

Before the little beast could get close, Bo Mingyun waved his right hand without stopping. At the moment he waved his hand, a phantom of a lynx materialized and pounced on the black ant beast.

The lynx was noticeably larger than the small black ant.

Upon seeing the lynx, Mali felt a chill run down her spine: "Miscalculation, not enough!"

She immediately released more black ant larvae, but was clearly a step too late.

The lynx had pale blue markings all over its body and was extremely aggressive. With just two claws, it tore the black ant-like beast to pieces, causing it to completely collapse.

The next second, Mali released more black ant larvae, which quickly re-merged with the scattered black ants.

This second batch of ant larvae were the elite soldiers that Ma Li usually raised. They were much larger and stronger, and the ant beast bodies they condensed were indeed much larger than the previous ones.

The ant-beast had only condensed halfway, and its head had just emerged when it took a vicious bite at the lynx.

The two beasts were tearing at each other, a scene that left the waitress speechless with fright. She stood frozen in place, momentarily forgetting her fear.

Bo Mingyun seemed to have not expected that Ma Li's little beast would be so strong. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he stepped in front of the locker and smashed the locked locker door open with a bang.

Ignoring the sharp edges of the cabinet door that was flipped open, he reached in and grabbed the box containing the body of the deceased. His arm was immediately scratched by the sharp edges, but no blood flowed out.

Li Yi was about to throw out the little Q doll she had been holding in her arms to help Ma Li, but Ma Li stopped her.

"Yiyi, you don't need to lift a finger! You haven't properly witnessed Aunt Mali's power yet—"

As she spoke, her skirt fluttered and moved without wind, and a black stream formed by black ants surged out, continuously gathering inside the ant-beast's body, making the ant-beast even stronger and its body grow wildly taller.

In fact, as long as the opponent is not something that Ma Li is afraid of, such as a ghost or a bird, she will unleash her full fighting power without being timid.

Soon the lynx let out a scream as it was torn to pieces by the ever-growing ant-beast.

Bo Mingyun's body trembled violently. Before he could turn his head to look, he had just taken out the urn when he suddenly felt a black stream rushing towards him.

Before he could dodge, Bo Mingyun was like a kite with a broken string, struck hard by the force and sent flying.

Mali anticipated that he would crash into the bulkhead, so she immediately controlled the ant beast to pounce on him.

Unexpectedly, Bo Mingyun used the force of the impact to accelerate and slammed into the bulkhead. With a loud bang, a hole was punched through the bulkhead, and his body was smashed into a mess of blood and flesh, which flew everywhere. Most of the blood and flesh was instantly sucked out of the hole in the bulkhead, while some of it stuck to the bulkhead and the tables and chairs.

After being separated from the human flesh, a blue-striped lynx flew out of the hole in the cabin, still carrying the urn in its mouth, and disappeared instantly after rushing out of the plane.

At the same time, the air pressure inside and outside the cabin instantly reversed, and a large number of items inside the cabin were quickly sucked out.

The first person to be sucked out was the waitress who couldn't react in time.

She let out a terrible scream and flew out, followed by a large number of tables, chairs, and other items, and then by the black ant larvae that Ma Li couldn't dodge in time, most of which were also sucked out.

Li Yi also screamed because she was very light and her whole body flew up uncontrollably. The little Q doll in her arms suddenly moved, hooking one hand on the fixed sofa and using the other hand to hold her body back, preventing her from flying out.

Ma Li looked horrified, grabbing the other end of the fixed sofa, and her whole body flew up, temporarily preventing her from being sucked out.

Just then, a chain flew over and wrapped around Li Yi's body.

The chain then twisted strangely in the middle, moving closer to Ma Li, and Li Jiuhe's voice followed: "Ma Li, grab the chain!"

Ma Li quickly reached out and grabbed the middle of the chain, which immediately and rapidly retracted into the front cabin, pulling her and Li Yi over simultaneously.

The negative pressure in the front cabin had decreased significantly. After Li Jiuhe put the two of them down, he quickly put away the chains.

He knelt down and hugged Li Yi, then asked Ma Li, "Tell me in detail, what just happened?"

Ma Li knew she had failed in her duty and had not been able to protect the urn containing the ashes.

Actually, if she hadn't stopped Li Yi from taking action, the two of them working together might not have allowed Bo Mingyun—no, that blue lynx—to steal the urn.

Ma Li quickly recounted what had happened, then hurriedly explained, "I only wanted to severely injure that guy, I didn't expect him to be possessed, and the one possessing him wasn't human, but a blue lynx."

"That lynx also has patterns on its body," Li Yi added.

At this moment, Ma Li was extremely annoyed, not only because that guy had escaped, but also because almost three-fifths of her ant larvae had been instantly sucked away, resulting in heavy casualties.

This is a huge loss for her.

"sorry----"

Li Jiuhe shook his head and said, "It's not your fault, we were all deceived by that guy. He tricked me into leaving the tail compartment, then used that human body to deceive you, and then used your attack to break through the encirclement and escape."

"What is that thing?" Mali asked in surprise. "A blue lynx? It's a non-human being like me, but why is it trying to steal the urn?"

Li Jiuhe frowned and remained silent.

He saw many suspicious points in the matter, but everything seemed to fall on the family in the front cabin, especially the wealthy Bo Mingyun.

According to Ma Li's account, Bo Mingyun was clearly possessed and controlled by that strange lynx.

With that thought, the mission reset was activated, returning to a time shortly after the plane took off, before even passing the Dragon Ridge Mountains.

Then, while maintaining the mission of "survival", Li Jiuhe defined a new mission for the current situation.

[Name: Blue-striped Lynx Incident]

[Level: II B]

[Requirements: 1. Uncover the secrets on the plane; 2. Ensure Bo Mingyun's survival.]

[Rewards: 1. 1 point awarded; 2. Slightly increased probability of obtaining high-energy-level tags.]

[Note: Completing this task will give you the opportunity to upgrade your job level to "Quest Designer - Intermediate" and unlock more job skills.]

The level of the mission was within Li Jiuhe's expectations, because the blue-striped lynx was not very strong, except for its somewhat strange movements.

However, the mission reward surprised Li Jiuhe, as it included a reward he had never seen before: an increased probability of obtaining high-level tags.

You should know that he has been getting mostly low-quality labels lately. He has only managed to get one ordinary label, and he doesn't have a single high-quality label, let alone a rare one.

Because based on the probability of obtaining tags, the percentage of rare tags that appear is currently zero.

Now, with the groundwork laid in the previous stages, Li Jiuhe suspects that completing this task should bring him very close to the critical point of career advancement.

However, to truly upgrade, given the nature of the task-defined ability, just like before the last upgrade, it may be necessary to complete another task.

Without thinking further, he set the reset point and waved to the waitress.

After the waitress approached with a smile, he said directly, "Could you please open the door connecting to the front cabin?"

The waiter was taken aback: "Now?"

"Yes, right now." Li Jiuhe nodded emphatically.

What is one of the benefits of resetting a task? It's nipping things in the bud before they escalate.